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Short description |
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This fragment of a thick clay tablet preserves only about half of a column of text, which makes it difficult to understand the oracle questions and the reports of bird flights.
We can thus read only small portions of a series of bird oracles about various topics. Two entries preserve the name of the augurs responsible for the observation: [Nun]u and Maraššanda (rev. 11´), and Maraššanda alone (rev. 17´). Possibly, they were the authors of the other entries as well.
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Texts |
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Literature from the Konkordanz |
- Y. Sakuma, Diss., 2009: II 489-493
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History of publication |
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Sakuma Y. 2009b, II, 489-493.
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Palaeography and handwriting |
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NS (jh.); diagnostic signs ḪA (not LNS/IIIc), ḪAR, IT, KI (not LNS/IIIc), TAR. KÙ fragmentary (rev. 12´), probably early form.
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Linguistic characteristics |
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A poorly preserved oracular question in this fragment seems to introduce bothpossible outcomes through two hypothetic sentences (obv. 6´-10´), the positive outcome “[If …] let the birds confirm it”, and the negative one “[but if …] let the birds exclude it”. Typically, the questions are synthetic and only provide one of them, the ‘desired’ outcome – whether it is the ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ depends on the nature of the question asked. Possibly, a similar structure can be restored in rev. 18´-25´, although this passage is even more fragmentary.
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